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@wastingtime101 wrote:
@wastingtime101 wrote:
To the Community team:
Another thing to note. On the Community home page, clicking "load more" to see additional posts generates the same pop up warning.
More problems spotted kyle@ebay .
1.
When I open links, I generally open them in a new tab. On my laptop (a Mac) that's Cmnd + click on the link.
But with this new change, when I Cmnd + click, the external link warning pop up appears, and if I click the button to proceed it opens the link in the same window instead of a new tab.
2.
Another change: when you type or paste a URL it used to default to open in a new tab. That HTML was programmed right in. Now that's unfortunately gone.
This is what's shown when I click the HTML tab, opens in same window:
<p><a href="https://www.usps.com">https://www.usps.com</a></p>
But if I type in the same URL then click the chainlink icon up above, that opens a pop up window and the default opens in a new window.
Note the difference in code when I open the hyperlink pop up, the target blank direction is added:
<p><a href="https://www.usps.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.usps.com</a></p>
Even with the code to open in a new window, it's not working. I can't open the above USPS link in a new tab by clicking or by forcing it with keyboard commands or by relying on my browser preferences which I have set to open links in new tabs. All methods are failing because of this new pop up overriding everything.
Hey @wastingtime101 thanks for bringing these to our attention as well. If you notice any others, keep us updated and we'll continue to get them in front of the right team!
Kyle,
Update:
If I right click and choose "open in a new tab" (my normal process) it works fine.
If I just left click to open in the same tab, I get the "External site" pop up.
Firefox and Windows, up to date.
@wastingtime101 wrote:
kyle@ebay These problems persist.
eBay subdomains still result in the offsite warning. Here's one of many examples:
https://sellerstandards.ebay.com/dashboard
Still prevented from opening off site links in new tab or window.
Hey @wastingtime101 thanks for bringing this up! It seems odd to me that you and I both get the notice, but @lacemaker3 isn't. Either way though, I have sent that over to get added to the exclusions.
Kyle,
Using Firefox on Win10, I've regularly been able to right-click-open in a new tab without a warning. So that is how I routinely click those links.
Here is another false warning to report to the programmers:
https://pages.motors.ebay.com//buy/security/index.html
@wastingtime101 wrote:
kyle@ebay I still cannot open external links in new tabs or windows. I'm forced to leave Community if I click on an external link. Is that being addressed?
Can you exclude these as external since they're eBay-owned?
ebayinc.com
ebayads.com
Hey @shipscript and @wastingtime101 thanks for this additional info. Opening in a new tab is certainly a work around for these links. But we are also continually working to get all the correct links to be blocked (and NOT blocked, obviously). So let us know if you run into others!
Kyle,
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